Global warming

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Something good on TV

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A matter of focus

Could it get any worse?

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Three notes on weather

*So one day you recite “Rain, rain, go away! Come again another day,” and nothing happens. On further enquiry, you learn that weather management was not part of the curriculum after all.

*There’s a chance you're being ignored if someone says- “Can I call you back? I’m identifying cloud shapes.”

*I can’t help feeling there is something fishy about this ad- “Somewhere over the rainbow, I misplaced a pot of gold. If found, please return to this address…”

The Year Clock

Why hasn’t this been created yet?




The dial in (1) gives a pictorial idea of how much of the year has elapsed. The dial in (2) has more than one hand. The blue line is for the current date. The red and green lines are important dates like a deadline, event, birthday or anniversary.

The dial can be a work of craft in plastic or cardboard and manually operated. Or it can be a computer application that is updated with the date. Clicking on the needle will display the date and caption. The caption can be edited.
There could be more hands, attachable and detachable.

The year label can be edited in a manual clock like an odometer and gets updated in a computer app.

The Joys of the Bespectacled

Here’s how an eye test works. There’s a chart behind you and it comes up in a mirror on the opposite wall. You steal a swift glance behind but it’s inverted. You look front, and it’s indecipherable. You anxiously come to realise that you’re cornered. Then you notice how comfortable your big chair is.

You sit there for a while and chat with the technician. It’s always D H L E N and C T PA L O.

Initially, they fit you with extremely weird black frames and perhaps snicker. Then they give you choices between lenses- ‘this one or this one?’- and you’re not allowed to say 'neither'. Finally you settle and grin, looking like a happy alien.

The opthamologist says it takes 1-3 weeks to get adjusted to a new pair of glasses. So I wear it and wait a week till people are adjusted to my face.

Thus life settles down with your spectacles. Sometimes, you have interesting experiences.

This morning when I was in the kitchen, it felt like I was making tea. When the steam cleared from my glasses, I saw I had.

Sometimes when I try to nudge my spectacles frame up, it’s not there. For example, when I wear contacts… or in my sleep.

According to my calculation, the average bespectacled person spends 12.16 hours a year looking for his spectacles.

When you just get glasses, people tend to say, “Oh-ho! Very brainy!” You enjoy the compliment earned by not reading the smaller letters.

The joys of the bespectacled are myriad.